Warring leaders in South Sudan have 60 days to form a government of national
unity and end six months of deadly clashes or face sanctions from their
neighbours, negotiators said yesterday.

President Salva Kiir met his former deputy Riek Machar in Addis Ababa and
agreed to the deal this week, according to the Intergovernmental Authority
on Development and Hailemariam Desalegn, the prime minister of Ethiopia, who
hosted negotiations.

Two previous ceasefires collapsed when soldiers loyal to both men continued
ethnic reprisals, which have left tens of thousands of people dead and
forced more than a million people from their homes.